Returning to his home after a long absence, Chen Lifu didn't have much time to spend with his family, and when he first arrived at home, he met with several of his important subordinates in the study.

I simply listened to the big and small things that happened during my absence.

In fact, there have been no major incidents in the inspection department recently, and the inspection department has already been regularized after Chen Lifu's rectification in the past two years.

Of the more than 70 tax inspectors under the inspection department, most of them are local inspections, but it is worth mentioning that tax problems have also occurred in the overseas Ryukyu Prefecture.

As an important transit point on the sea route from China to Fuso, the Ryukyu Province was the lifeblood of maritime trade and brought it great wealth, and in the process, some serious tax problems occurred.

In the ninth year of Xuanping, the tax collected by the Ryukyu Prefecture was only 70% of what the Ministry of Taxation estimated!

Especially in Osumi Prefecture, the northernmost part of the Ryukyu Prefecture, which has just been established for more than a year, the tax collected in the ninth year of Xuanping is only a pitiful more than 10,000 taels of silver!

It's definitely problematic!

Although Osumi Prefecture has only been established for more than a year, and is located overseas, with a total permanent population of several thousand, Osumi Prefecture has never relied on agriculture or other ordinary industrial development, it is only separated from Fuso Kyushu Island by the Osumi Strait, and it is one of the most important ports in the Tang Dynasty's trade with Fuso in the past year.

In such an important place, only more than 10,000 taels of silver are collected in a year, and the people in the tax department do not believe it.

You must know that ordinary agricultural counties in China, even low-class counties, can collect tens of thousands of taels of silver in taxes a year.

It doesn't make sense that Osumi Prefecture is worse than these inferior counties!

As soon as they saw the tax figures reported by the Ryukyu Prefecture, they didn't care if there was a problem with the account book, and no matter what method you used to hide it, they decided that there was one point:

"If an important transit point for maritime trade like Ryukyu Prefecture can't collect two or three hundred thousand taels of silver in taxes a year, then there must be a problem!"

Therefore, as soon as they saw this figure, they directly concluded that there must have been a tax problem in the Ryukyu Prefecture, and immediately sent a tax inspector to the Ryukyu Prefecture to rectify the local taxation.

Chen Lifu nodded slightly after hearing this, and didn't say anything, there are tax problems in the local area, which is normal, if not, then their inspection office can also be revoked.

The tax collection has always been extremely contradictory, and the tax department has to complete its task, while the landlords and merchants on the ground are trying to evade taxes by all means, and even do not hesitate to win over local officials to the water.

Whenever this happens, what the inspection department needs to do is to send out a tax inspector and then clean up the local taxes!

Occasionally, local landlords, businessmen, and officials collude to cover up and even engage in unrest and the like, and as soon as something happens, they impeach the tax inspector and say anything that undermines local stability.

For the sake of local stability, for the sake of the dawn of the people, let the higher authorities withdraw the tax inspectors and the like, or simply frame up!

At this time, it's the time for the Patrol to go on a killing spree!

Besides, those who evade taxes are either big landlords and big businessmen, or officials who are greedy and pervert the law and embezzle taxes, and ordinary people are not qualified to evade taxes.

Therefore, tax inspection officials often directly use the tax inspection team, and if the local area cannot use it, then it is really not possible to temporarily transfer them to other places, and it is also okay to ask the local garrison for help.

Those landlords and businessmen and local corrupt officials and corrupt officials naturally play conspiracy and tricks on weekdays, and the relationship in the local area is complicated, and it is not easy to find out and find evidence.

However, the tax inspectors don't play this game with them at all, and often go straight to the guns!

What is a survey?

That is, after sending troops to surround them, they searched directly with a search warrant, and arrested people on the spot when they found evidence, as for resisting, it was better, they didn't bother to find evidence, and directly started attacking with guns and cannons!

Armed resistance to taxes is regarded as complicity!

The tax department is so unreasonable!

Now this situation is that if the empire wants small-scale tax evasion, there is naturally no way to prohibit it, but if you want large-scale tax evasion, it is unlikely.

Because the Ministry of Taxation can get a lot of data, the accounts of major banks, including the Royal Bank, are open for tax purposes, and the data of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture and other departments can also be consulted.

They have their own set of methods for calculating how much tax can be levied in a certain place every year, first looking at the tax collected in previous years, then looking at the development of local agriculture, industry and commerce, and then looking at the capital flow of local banks, and then deducing an approximate range.

However, if it exceeds this range, it will often attract the attention of the inspection department, and then send a tax inspector to investigate.

If the tax inspectors sent to the past can't find out the problem, it's okay, they will send another one, as for the tax inspector who can't find the problem, the end will naturally not be better, either it will be corroded, or it will be incompetent, and either the end will be very miserable.

If the tax inspection sent in the past still can't find the problem, then basically this matter will enter Chen Lifu's sight, and the next thing is to go out from the tax inspection of the deputy director of the inspection department of Wupin, if the problem can't be found, then basically this matter can be stabbed in front of Qian Ao.

Because this means that the problem is very big, it is estimated that the tax department will change the local tax system from head to toe, conduct a thorough investigation of the local landlords and merchants, and then greet the officials and ask them to change the local local officials from head to toe!

They don't believe that they can't find a problem, and when they find out the problem, then even if it's time to settle the general ledger, it's necessary!

As for saying that local taxation is really okay?

, no matter what other people say, but the people in the tax department definitely don't believe it!

Therefore, no matter how much the local government tries to cover it up, in fact, it cannot escape the supervision of the Ministry of Taxation!

Because people don't care about your account books or anything, people only stare at the local economic development and bank flows, a good economic situation, but there is no corresponding increase in taxes, if there is no problem here, the people of the tax department dare to hang themselves collectively!

The people in the Ministry of Taxation know very well that tax evasion is the root of human evil, and it cannot be completely eliminated!

To put an end to this, it is impossible to expect people to consciously avoid tax evasion, what they have to do is to make the cost of tax evasion so big that they are afraid.

Tax evasion, like other illegal things, also has a cost.

At present, in the Tang Empire, the illegal cost of tax evasion is quite large, and it is a family extermination at every turn, and as for fines and arrests, it is light, but even so, it is difficult to completely eliminate it.

Because people in these years, especially the local big landlords and big businessmen, always feel that they are the landlords, they can control everything, they can buy ordinary officials, they can buy tax officials, and they can even buy tax inspectors.

But these people don't know that the more they do it, the more serious it becomes!

No matter who they bought, no matter how beautiful the accounts are, but the tax department determines that the tax revenue in this place is less, and this cannot be collected, and the problem cannot be found, then at this time the matter is really big.

If the tax department is provoked, people will really send tax inspection teams and even garrisons from other places to help, and then surround the homes of those potential suspects such as big landowners and big businessmen, and conduct carpet searches one by one.

At that time, they will even make a big fuss, find any big or small tax problems and start arresting people, and then slowly review people when they are caught.

Basically, since the establishment of the Grain Collection Department of the Datang Tax Department, the taxes they want to collect have never been unable to be collected!

The inspection department wants to investigate whether a person has evaded taxes, and has not tried to find out the situation, because almost everyone's butt is not clean.

Many times the tax department actually turns a blind eye, as long as they don't do too much, they don't want to push too much, they also want to take it step by step, to boil a frog in warm water.

But you've gone too far, and they'll be able to find crucial evidence to send you to jail in minutes!

After all, in this world, there are really not many people like Chen Lifu who are rich and have lofty ideals!

Regarding the tax issue on the Ryukyu Mansion, since someone has been sent over, Chen Lifu did not interfere too much, just waiting for the news of the Ryukyu Mansion, and now he is more concerned about who the fuck reported him this time.

Or the word who is not very appropriate, because the word represents the individual, it should be said which group of people reported themselves again!

The person who reports himself will definitely not be one person or two people, and there must be a gang and a force behind it.

Chen Lifu encountered a lot of this situation, when he rectified the timber industry after tax in the eighth year of Xuanping, the merchants of the timber industry united dozens of court officials to attack him, not to mention the report and impeachment, he, a good official dedicated to the people, was almost killed by the assassin's pistol.

After this incident, he installed a steel plate of good quality on his carriage, in case he assassinated him with a musket at this moment, and went in and out with several personal retinues.

And the name is retinue, but in fact it is a bodyguard.

That time, Chen Lifu was almost assassinated, and he was naturally furious afterwards!

Then, the empire's timber industry almost came to a big change, and the top dozen or so big timber merchants all collapsed overnight, and they were seriously exterminated, and the best one was also fined and directly punished to bankruptcy! , the charges are all the same: tax evasion!

Those middle-ranked timber merchants, like being smashed by pies falling from the sky, took over the various resources and channels left by the original big timber merchants, and then became one of the largest timber merchants in the empire.

Now, someone has bulleted and reported himself, but he wants to see who is doing something, and after finding the identity of the enemy, then he will not have the slightest hesitation, and will directly launch a thunderous counterattack!

I don't have power for more than a year, and many people are afraid that they will start to treat themselves as sick cats!